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A brief history of the American Revolution
Deseret News via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEngraving of Molly Pitcher at the Battle of Monmouth. | Wikimedia Commons Just under a decade before skirmishes in Concord and Lexington would set off...
Op-Ed: American history is a parade of horrors — and also heroes
Los Angeles Times Opinion via Yahoo News· 2 years agoJohn Brown, an evangelical militia leader who was hanged for trying to arm enslaved people for an...
Murders, vampire, mass grave: Here's the history and lore behind 5 of RI's haunted spots
The Providence Journal via Yahoo News· 8 months agoWhen the air gets a chill in the morning, the days shorten and the maples start dropping their...
A tree depicting liberty, a stone celebrating the US' 250 years dedicated at USM
Hattiesburg American via Yahoo News· 7 months agoThe University of Southern Mississippi honored veterans and service members and celebrated the...
From Thanksgiving to Labor Day, these 9 holidays have surprisingly dark origins
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 7 months agoOur popular understanding of the history of Thanksgiving is flawed.Barney Burstein/Corbis/VCG via...
From Jan. 6 to Tyre Nichols, American Life Is Still Defined by Caste
Time via Yahoo News· 1 year agoCredit - Artwork by Lavett Ballard for TIME; Photographed by Eric James Montgomery How did our...
A student from China told the University of Utah her boyfriend was threatening her. She was found...
NBC Universal via AOL· 2 years agoA trove of documents released by the University of Utah on Tuesday reveals a series of failures...
Think you know the history of the first Thanksgiving? Here are 5 surprising holiday facts
Tacoma News Tribune via AOL· 2 years agoThanksgiving might seem like a day with a simple message of togetherness, but the history about the...
Why Rugby, a historic Tennessee site, flourished and floundered
The Oak Ridger via Yahoo News· 9 months agoCarolyn Krause brings us a two-part series on Historic Rugby, the utopian community originally built...
There's a sacred Native site in Sequoyah Hills. Tribes say it needs protection.
Knox News | The Knoxville News-Sentinel via Yahoo News· 11 months agoWhen Kim Smith looks out across the sunlit shoreline of Sequoyah Park, she envisions how it might...